A Republican brought this to my attention and was OUTRAGED. It was the first time she ever heard of problems with electronic voting...ACTION ALERT! PLEASE CONTACT CNN/LOU DOBBS AND BEG FOR MORE!!!If anyone has a link to the entire segment and/or the video, please post. Thank you.
August 18, 2008 TRANSCRIPT OF SEGMENTDOBBS: We report here a lot on this broadcast about the unreliability of the electronic voting machines without a paper trial that have been dispersed around the country in many parts of the country.
In fact nearly a third of this country will be using those very machines to vote this November. The federal government now admits it will not be able to test or to certify the millions of electronic voting machines in time for the presidential election. As Kitty Pilgrim reports, those machines, well, you guessed it, they're going to be used anyway.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): New York State is voting in the presidential election the old-fashioned way by lever machine. The co-chairman of the New York State Board of Elections says they are so disturbed by the lack of testing on electronic voting machines the state will not purchase electronic voting equipment until federal testing is reliable.
DOUGLAS KELLNER, NY STATE BOARD OF ELECTIONS: The simple fact is that there is not a single piece of election equipment on the market today that complies with all of the current federal standards. PILGRIM: States like California, Florida, Maryland, Tennessee, and Iowa are in the process of replacing electronic voting machines for November, often with paper ballots. Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is going one step further, suing the voter machine company Diebold to recover the millions the states spent on the machines. Most voters in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Indiana, and Virginia will use touch screen machines that don't have a paper trail.
SUSAN GREENHALGH, VOTER ACTION:
Machines are going to be used in this election that never should have been qualified, never should have been passed through the system because they actually don't meet the standards and they're out there now and going to be voted on in November. PILGRIM: In six years of federal testing, private labs did the testing for certification, but those tests were often commissioned by the voting machine companies themselves. In early 2007, the Election Assistance Commission was set up to tighten up testing, but since that time, no new equipment has been certified. Now they're out of time to certify any new equipment before the election in November.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PILGRIM: Now the Election Assistance Commission says they have had a lot of problems with the voting machine companies in the testing labs not complying with their testing requirement. That's why the pace has been so slow in testing election equipment, Lou.
DOBBS: Well, darn. Those darn manufacturers of these things. Those darn testing companies. It's still the United States -- can't they require this before they invest taxpayer money and put everybody at risk for this?
PILGRIM: I think New York State has the best idea. Hold off until you can get the right machine. It's not required, it's not mandatory.
DOBBS: What's not mandatory?
PILGRIM: Testing is not mandatory.
DOBBS: It is mandatory you go, but it isn't mandatory that they work. It's sort of becoming the American way. What we have here is a situation just about half the country will be voting without knowing whether or not they're just throwing that vote out without any way to prove otherwise.
PILGRIM: That's what voter activists tell us; it's a tough, tough call.
DOBBS: Combine with that the fact that no one knows who's registering to vote and no one's enforcing voter registration laws in any state in this country, we could have quite a result this year. PILGRIM: It's a little disheartening yes.
DOBBS: Disheartening, it's infuriating. What's great, of all of the political activists in this country, where are the people says, we've got to control who's registering to vote or who is voting, who isn't registered or who is registering but improperly. To my knowledge, maybe you can correct me, not a single, single barrier against just rampant broad voter fraud.
PILGRIM: These machines have been routinely hacked by scientists. These machines are unreliable, flat out unreliable.
DOBBS: We have unreliable registration procedures. We have unrealizable voting procedures, and so we're just supposed to expect whatever happens.
PILGRIM: That's what it looks like for this November, yeah.
DOBBS: That's democracy in action, as they say. Thanks a lot, Kitty Pilgrim.
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